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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Went to high school (one of the "W" schools in MoCo) with a bunch of kids like this. The Asian kids going after straight A's often burned out later. The B-average kids, usually white but also well-rounded, did pretty well career-wise. Most of the people at my 20-year reunion last year who owned successful businesses were the B-average kids. I think entrepreneurship requires a very broad range of skills. [/quote]
I also went to one of these high schools and was a top student. I started a business right out of MIT.
So your generality is not perfect, but perhaps there is something to it.

However, you clearly didn't read the article, for which one of the main points was why many Asian parents push their kids so hard is that they lack access to many of the social networks that would be so important for starting a business or many other jobs. The fact that you are blind to this and simply think that you and the other "B-" white kids are simply superior or more well rounded or whatever is just simple minded and smug.

I am white and did not have tiger parents so this has nothing to do with me.[/quote]

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